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LOOSE[K]HaLahTSHet-Lamed-Tsadi

Ha-LUTZחלץ[H-L-TS àLS]

ROOTS:TheIndo-European (IE) “root” of LOOSEand LOSS is leu-1 (to loosen, divide, cut apart) . Old English leosan is to lose.

חלץ[K]HaLahTSis to loose a shoe off a
foot (Deuteronomy 25:9). Similarly, although we now reverse the liquid-fricative, Moses is told
toשלSHahL(remove or loosen) his sandals(Exodus 3:5).Another Shin-Lamed letting go or slipping off isשלח SHaLa[K]H – see
“SLOUGH.”The Shin-Lamed sub-root of
loosening is also seen at the “SLIP” entry, as שלףSHaLaPH is the action of loosening, drawing, or sliding
a sword out of a sheath (Joshua 5:13).See “SLIP.”

Like שלSHahL, Shin-Lamed-Phey is used for loosening or slipping out of one’s
sandal – Ruth 4:7. שללSHaLaL, booty, is that which is loosened from victims
(Joshua 22:8) and SHoLaL means stripped of or loosened of Micah 1:8.חלצה[K]HaLeeTSaH also means booty.

Derived from שלשלSHiLSHaiL, a letting down and lowering (as one’s guard), שלשול SHiLSHOOL means the
loosening of the bowels, or diarrhea.

ש-לShin-Lamed antonyms of
looseness include שלבSHaLaBH (bound or fit together – Exodus 26:17). The
opposite of taken or loosened booty,שללSHaLaL, is the possessive pronoun שלSHeL (belonging to).

The large fricative-liquid family of both
looseness and binding together is in the Word Families chapter of The Origin
of Speeches and in the “Synonyms and Antonyms” document in the Edenics CD
III. Newer designed
opposites are in the eBook, “A Garden of Edenics.”

EvenשלוםSHaLoM and שלוהSHaLVaH (see “SOLEMN” and “SALVATION”) are “peace” words because times are LOOSE, and not tight with tension, the stricture ofש-לShin-Lamed shifted to the painful צ-רTsadi-Reshwords likeצרTSahR (oppressor, enemy,
distress) seen at “STRESS.”

Physically
tight words, tied up tight likeצרורTSiROAR (bundle) and צררTSaRahR (to bind or wrap
up) are at “SARI.” More
of these below.

Words that do not begin with theש-לShin-Lamed sub-root of looseness:

חשל[K]HaSHaL is to be faint, to lag
behind(Deuteronomy 25:18);כשלKaSHaL is to stumble (Jeremiah 18:23);in
Hoshea 14:2 the falling is clearly moral, as Samaria has been lax and loose in
observance, and must repent.

For
the built-in opposites, note these liquid-fricative and fricative-liquid words of tight restriction:פשל PaSHaL and הפשיל HeePSHeeYL is to knot or fasten, and to leave behind, throw back. It’s not
Biblical, but Semitic, and may echo the Shin-Resh ofפשר PeSHeR, to dissolve, solve (loosening a knotty problem).

The
closest to L-S isחלץ[K]HaLahTS, to gird (also Syriac). A blouse in
Modern Hebrew is aחלצה [K]HooLSTaH.Its built-in opposite is the identicalחלץ[K]HaLahTS , to draw off, withdraw, to loose of our heading. A second
antonym, this by metathesis, isלחץLa[K]HahTS(pressure–Numbers 22:25).

LOOT is somehow filed under the IE “root” reup (to snatch).LOOT is
better taken out fromחלץ [K]HaLahTS, to withdraw, take out,
rob (Psalm 7:5) and Aramaic-Syriac “he despoiled.” [EDK]
Also see “RAID.”

LASHINGand LACING are binding verbs, but no etymon is older than Old French lachier.
Edenic offers many source words, includingשלבSHahLe(V), to join together.

צורTSOOR is to bind up (Deuteronomy 14:25);אסורA$OOR is one put in fetters (Judges 16: 21);ארזARahZ is firmly bound,
packed(Ezekiel 27:24)and אזרAZahR is to bind (Jeremiah 1:17 -- see “RICE”).

Battlefield plunder,שללSHaLahL, is literally LOOSED from the bodies,
including ring fingers,of vanquished
foes.

TheשלSHahL! (LOOSE your sandals from off your feet of
Exodus 3:5) is seen inthe reversedלושLOOSH, to knead.Kneadingis LOOSENING dough (Genesis 18:6). Reversability is also seen in the
following doublet:

חלש [K]HaLaSH,weak,
to weaken (Exodus17:13) is a synonym by
metathesis of חשל K[H]aSHaL above, and a welcome slackening word in
theEnglish S-L sequence.See “SLACK.”

Another fricative-liquid "opener" isשערSHa'[A]R(to split open);Harkavyhas this explain
why this word means a gate.See “ARREST”
and “SARI” for tight antonyms.

The
body part named for hanging loosely is theלשוןLaSHOAN (tongue, see
"SLANG"). A loose tongue can sink more ships than loose lips.

נשלNaSHaL, to fall off, cast out = the nasal-fricative sub-root of “moving
away” at the “MISS” entry (includesנוסNOO$, to escape) +the S-Lsub-root seen here at “LOOSE.”

שראSHaRAyis to loose, or unravel in the Aramaic of Daniel
5:12.

Many
fricative-liquid opposite words
of tying up at “SARI.”

חלץ[K]HaLahTS,to loosen (Isaiah 20:2) is
the designed opposite of

חלץ[K]HaRahTSa(V) to bind fast, in the tight fetters of Isaiah
58:6

BRANCHES:עצל
[A]TSeLis the looseness of laziness;see “LAZY.”ReverseTsadi-Lamed to get Hungarian lusta, lazy.The PARA- of PARALYSIS is allegedly from the
Greek prefix para (on one side, from עבר [A]BHahR -- see “OVER.”) This strange etymology requires only
an L-S weakness or looseness on
one side. A more logical alternative involves areverse
רפהRaPHaH (weak) or רפףRaPHaPH (waver, WAFFLE, loosen… like Arabic raffa,
it quivered), combined with חלש[K]HaLaSH (weak) and other L-S words here.See “LEFT.” Also see פלץPaLaTS )to shudder) at “FLUTTER” and “PALSY.”

Palsy
and paralysis are different medical conditions, of course, but early on they
may have been grouped together as weakening, loosening ailments of the limbs.

These
medical words are post-Biblical, butשלשלSHiLSHaiL andשלשולSHiLSHOOLmeantheloosening
of diarrhea. Reversing the Edenic sub-root, as with the Shin-Lamed here, rarely
produces words of loose association.

Silo
is
to open in Araona (Amazon).Letting
loose of property involves a LEASE. Letting an animal out of a pen to accompany
one with a LEASH also involves a loosening, and the permission of an owner.
Both LEASE and LEASH are tethered to Latin laxare,
toloosen.Even though LAX sounds too hard for our ש-ל Shin-Lamed etymons of
LOOSENESS and LAXITY above, LEASE and LEASH fit the authoritative loosening of רשותRiSHOOT (permission).LASSITUDE is a listless
weakness, from Latin lassitude. The
muscles have loosened with torpor.

Armenian tongue is lizu.

LUSH
(luxuriant), is yet another reversedש-לShin-Lamed word.It is traced to Old French lasche,
soft, succulent, then all the way back(for the Semitically-challenged) to Latin laxāre, to open, relax.

רשיון RiSHaYOAN is a LICENSE in Modern Hebrew.Permission or רשותRiSHOO(S), to say, get a
permit or LICENSE to drive. Once one understands that a LICENSE is
permitting, letting go, it is easier to hear the ש-לShin-Lamed (reversed) looseness, or even LICENSE as a nasalized, S-L רשותRiSHOO(S). LICENTIOUSNESS,
LICENTIOUS behavior lacks the authority of a LICENSE (permit), but it certainly
has Edenic liquid-fricative LOOSENESS. Latin licere, is to be allowed.
So, one has license to bypassרשות RISHOO(S) and to revert to ש-לShin-Lamed (loosness).

In
Farsi/Persian loose is shol.Räsä and
risa are broken in Finnish(liquid-fricative); löysä is loose
as in relaxed [MN].German
lasch is limp or lax from< ßשל SHahL,
loose !While German lässig, indolent,
sluggish< M231S-G S-FחלשK[H]aLahSH, weak.In Spanish laso is weak or limp, and lasitud is LASSITUDE.The similar opposite of unwilling
fricative-liquid LOOSENESS, is liquid-fricative willful letting lose.Resh-Shin allowance is recorded in רשיוןRiSHYOAN (leave, permission
– Ezra 3:7). רשהRaSHaH, to have leave, is
the older word, and has an R-SH Aramaic cognate.In Japanese yurushimeans permission, whileyurusu is a verb ofpermitting or allowing. More Resh-Shin
looseness at “ILLICIT.”

The
IE “root” of LOOSEwas listed asleu-1 (to loosen) .As seen above, one of the alleged cognates
isLEASE.נשהNaSaH is “to remove” (Harkavy). The same נשה NaSaH means to lent on usury (for interest – Deuteronomy 24:10
and Jeremiah15:10.TheNoon-to-L shift, see Appendix B, is rarely brought up, but the LOOSE-LEASE connection warrants
it. A LEASED property is
temporarily let go, or just LET.

The Shin-Lamed
LOOSENING or slipping of נשלNaSHahL, to slip or drop off is
seen aliquid shift away inנשרNaSHahR is to fall off, drop (Biblical Aramaic).The fastest-dropping animal is the
plummeting eagle or נשרNeSHeR.

Mikko
Nuuttila adds verbal looseness. In Finnish löysä is loose, and lässyttää is to talk
loosely, much nonsense. French laisser, to let, allow,
allowed English the mellow letting slide of LAISSEZ FAIRE.